Independent Data Consultancy
Short and sweet! If you have current maintenance for SAP BI4.2 or Edge 4.2, you will now be able to download the new release. You’ll need a new licence key, request through the normal SAP site. Our test server should be available within the next few days and we’ll be seeing how smoothly in-place upgrades […]
It’s strange how unexpected problems can appear, even with a familar product. I do about one upgrade per month from a really old version of Crystal Enterprise or BO Enterprise, so I’ve now got it down to a smooth process. This week, it was an upgrade from Business Objects Enteprise XI (Release 1) to Crystal […]
Before you get excited, this hasn’t been released yet. SAP are promising 1st half of 2016, so somewhere between New Year and your summer holiday. It still makes an interesting read to see both specific features and general direction of the products. I’ve mentioned Crystal Server 2016 in here, but the name’s not official yet. […]
The official line from SAP: Crystal Server 2011 Standard and Enterprise Maintenance Notice Crystal Server 2011 mainstream maintenance is scheduled to end Dec 31st 2015. Crystal Server 2011 customers with current support may continue to renew this year and during 2016. At the end of mainstream maintenance, priority-one support will begin and continue through Dec […]
Customer: Educational Software Company SAP introduced us to a rapidly growing software company. The reported problem was a with scaling their Crystal Server. The server was using the Report Application Server (RAS) to modify reports on the fly, then present the finished report to the user. We initially expected the problem to be related the use […]
Pleased to announce that Pursuit Technology are the first reseller for R-Tag’s Crystal Reports Management Software in the UK, covering UK and Ireland. We’ll be publishing a series of posts on these great products over the next few weeks with more details of the great functionality. In the meantime, if you’re looking for documentation, version […]
Sadly, this no longer works. Google have removed the API. I’m hoping that the next release of Crystal Reports supports https for image locations so I can update this to a newer API. I just had an interesting support question from a customer, and felt the need to put pen to paper. They’re finding that […]
Customer: Diagnostic Imaging Provider Project: End to end reporting solution, from data warehouse design through to SharePoint integration. Pursuit Technology were responsible for enabling reporting across multiple disparate systems. A reporting database (datamart) was designed in Microsoft SQL Server, loaded on a daily basis using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services. The reports were initially intended […]
Customer: Canary Wharf based financial organisation Pursuit Technology partnered with an IT infrastructure company to assist their new customer with their reporting needs. Crystal Reports Server had already been chosen in recognition of its market leading reporting technology. Initially, Pursuit Technology were involved in planning the number of servers required to allow for development, testing […]
Customer: Automotive Dealership Pursuit Technology were approached to provide support and consultancy for an existing Crystal Enterprise 10 installation. The system had been in place for some years and now there were a number of problems that needed to be solved. Over several sessions, we were able to remotely connect to their server to review […]
